They headed to Standard Hospital because, even at night, there’s always a doctor available. Upon arrival, she was urgently attended to. After the initial examination, the doctor said,
“Amrah cannot give birth naturally; there’s a major complication, and the baby is in a breach position. The easiest option is a C-section to save either her or the baby, but one of them will be lost.”
Due to extreme distress, Ammi began reciting the Shahada. Fahimah stood trembling with anxiety. The doctor requested for her husband or father to come and sign the consent forms as time was running out, and there was no other help they could provide besides the C-section.
Talatu, displaying remarkable composure, said to Fahimah,
“Give me Ammi’s phone that you’re holding and dial my master’s number for me.”
Fahimah complied, having completely forgotten that she had Ammi’s phone since she left hers at home. Her hand shaking, she found Uwais’s number and handed it to Talatu.
Uwais picked up immediately, as he was also in distress, anxiously waiting for news. He wondered what had brought Amrah to their house and into Fahimah’s room in the middle of the night, and why Fahimah had left her phone to take someone else’s call at that hour. He was sure things had gone terribly wrong, and if he had heeded
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